Ruling CPI(M) on Saturday asked the media to stay away from polling booths during tomorrow's panchayat polls. Source: Daily News & Analysis | 10 May 2008 | 2:17 pm
About 55 percent of 17.3 million eligible voters Saturday voted in 89 constituencies across 11 southern districts of Karnataka in the first phase of assembly elections. Source: Daily News & Analysis | 10 May 2008 | 2:01 pm
Both Kolkata Knight Riders and Deccan Chargers are sailing in the same boat and can't afford to lose any more matches as they face each other in an important Indian Premier League (IPL) match here Sunday. Source: India News latest RSS headlines - India's News.Net | 10 May 2008 | 2:00 pm
A four-year-old boy died Saturday morning after he was thrown by his mother from the fourth floor of a building under construction in Worli in south Mumbai two days ago. Source: India News latest RSS headlines - India's News.Net | 10 May 2008 | 2:00 pm
Sheikh Mote of Nandigram's Gokulnagar says he had to pay the price for not rooting for West Bengal's ruling Communist Party of India-Marxist in local body elections to be held Sunday. He was allegedly beaten unconscious by the (CPI-M) cadres. Source: India News latest RSS headlines - India's News.Net | 10 May 2008 | 2:00 pm
New Delhi/With the Left parties refusing to relent in their opposition to the India-US civil nuclear deal, the Manmohan Singh government has conveyed to Washington its 'difficulties' but indicated that efforts were still under way to forge political consensus on the deal. Source: India News latest RSS headlines - India's News.Net | 10 May 2008 | 2:00 pm
A man has been arrested for allegedly abducting a three-year-old girl to settle a dispute with the victim's uncles, the police said Saturday. Source: India News latest RSS headlines - India's News.Net | 10 May 2008 | 2:00 pm
The Congress in Kerala has levelled corruption charges against the Left Front government over a proposed titanium sponge plant, the contract for which is reportedly being given to Russia-based Rosoboron Exporters. Source: India News latest RSS headlines - India's News.Net | 10 May 2008 | 2:00 pm
A bomb exploded in the premises of the judicial magistrate's court in Hubli in north Karnataka as the state held its first phase of assembly polls. Source: Daily News & Analysis | 10 May 2008 | 1:56 pm
A four-year-old boy died after he was thrown by his mother from the fourth floor of a building under construction in Worli in south Mumbai two days ago. Source: Daily News & Analysis | 10 May 2008 | 1:51 pm
Nicknames help breed familiarity and the adage has worked perfectly for the Rajasthan Royals, which has managed to get players of different nationalities gel together. Source: Daily News & Analysis | 10 May 2008 | 1:45 pm
The state-owned Power Finance Corporation (PFC) has posted a 20.4 per cent decline in its net profit for the quarter ended March 2008 to Rs 295.4 crore from Rs 371.2 crore in the same quarter last year as per the audited results announced today. Source: Business Standard | News Now | 10 May 2008 | 1:41 pm
The Election Commission issued a notice to Union Power Minister Sushil Kumar Shinde for breaking the election code of conduct. Source: Daily News & Analysis | 10 May 2008 | 1:34 pm
Posted on: Saturday, 10 May 2008, 03:00 CDT du, the integrated telecom operator in the UAE announced that it has signed a construction and maintenance agreement (C&MA) to build the first direct, high... Source: India News latest RSS headlines - India's News.Net | 10 May 2008 | 1:27 pm
Maharashtra Chief Minister Vilasrao Deshmukh stopped his speech at a public rally here to listen to a woman farm labourer and answered her grievance. Source: Daily News & Analysis | 10 May 2008 | 1:24 pm
YANGON (Reuters) - Myanmar held a rare election to approve a new army-drafted constitution on Saturday while many of the 1.5 million survivors of a devastating cyclone waited in vain for a concerted aid effort to bring them food and medicine.
The Election Commission today issued a notice to Union Power Minister Sushil Kumar Shinde for violating the election code of conduct. Source: Business Standard | News Now | 10 May 2008 | 1:19 pm
After senior BJP leader L K Advani created a controversy over his statement on Mohammed Ali Jinnah in 2005, Jaswant Singh is penning down a book on him. Source: Daily News & Analysis | 10 May 2008 | 1:16 pm
In a case of honour killing, two lovers were allegedly killed by the girl's parents and their bodies recovered from their native village, Ballah, in Karnal, police said. Source: Daily News & Analysis | 10 May 2008 | 1:14 pm
An estimated 60 per cent of the 1.73 crore electorate cast their votes in the first phase of polls held in 89 assembly constituencies spread over 11 districts in Karnataka which ended by and large peacefully today. Source: Business Standard | News Now | 10 May 2008 | 1:10 pm
Srinagar, May 10 : A five-member team of International Mountaineering Federation (IMF) in association with the tourism department of Kashmir promotes trekking destinations in the state. Source: India News latest RSS headlines - India's News.Net | 10 May 2008 | 1:00 pm
A team of city-based intellectuals under the banner of NGO Swajan, who Saturday afternoon set out for Nandigram in East Midnapore district to monitor Sunday's panchayat polls, was forced by the police to return to Kolkata. Source: India News latest RSS headlines - India's News.Net | 10 May 2008 | 1:00 pm
The Finance Bill, 2008, today received the President's assent. Soon after, the finance ministry issued notifications to give effect to various provisions related to service tax. Source: Business Standard | News Now | 10 May 2008 | 12:50 pm
Having grabbed the headlines back home for Railways' massive turnaround, Railway Minister Lalu Prasad is now all set to sell his success story overseas. Source: Business Standard | News Now | 10 May 2008 | 12:20 pm
US Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice and her Indian counterpart Pranab Mukherjee have held talks on the current situation in Myanmar and the civil nuclear deal. Source: Zee News : India National | 10 May 2008 | 12:19 pm
The Supreme Court on Friday dismissed a petition seeking a direction to the government to provide a special aircraft to the Chief Justice Of India for his movements like the President. Source: Zee News : India National | 10 May 2008 | 12:19 pm
United States has asked India to take the comments made by President George W Bush and Secretary of State Condoleeza Rice that calorie intake of Indians is contributing to higher food prices, in a positive manner. Source: Zee News : India National | 10 May 2008 | 12:19 pm
Polling began in 89 constituencies across 11 districts in the first phase of Assembly Elections in Karnataka at 7:00 am on Saturday amid tight security. The districts where voting is taking place are Tumkur, Chikkaballapur, Kolar, Bangalore Urban, Bangalore Rural, Ramanagara, Mandya, Hassan, Kodagu, Mysore and Chamarajanagar. "Elections are being held for the first time in the country after delimitation process," an Election Commission official said. Source: Zee News : India National | 10 May 2008 | 12:19 pm
Usha Martin's deal with Manchester-based B3 Cable Solutions for acquiring UM Cables, has fallen through. Source: Business Standard | News Now | 10 May 2008 | 11:44 am
Software Solutions provider Adobe India, might overshoot its investment target of around Rs 800 crore that it announced in 2006 for a period of five years. Source: Business Standard | News Now | 10 May 2008 | 11:37 am
The Congress-led UPA government is making all efforts to bring down spiralling prices and reduce the inflation rate in the country, Union Minister of State for Information Technology Jyothiraditya Scindia said today. Source: Business Standard | News Now | 10 May 2008 | 11:20 am
BATTICALOA, Sri Lanka (Reuters) - Residents in Sri Lanka's war-ravaged east voted for the first time in two decades on Saturday in an election the government hopes will endorse its war to defeat Tamil Tiger rebels.
Popular television actors Gauri Pradhan and Hiten Tejwani can't stop raving about Shah Rukh Khan ever since they shot for a special episode of 'Kya Aap Paanchvi Paas Se Tez Hain' hosted by the Bollywood superstar. Source: India eNews: Top Headlines | 10 May 2008 | 10:32 am
Power equipment major Bharat Heavy Electricals Limited ( BHEL), has formally taken over Bharat Heavy Plate and Vessels (BHPV) today as part of the larger exercise to merge weak public-sector companies with strong ones. Source: Business Standard | News Now | 10 May 2008 | 10:29 am
The West Bengal government has shortlisted two nationalised insurance companies along with ICICI Prudential Life insurance for launching the Rashtriya Swasthya Bima Yojna (RSBY) in four districts of the state. Source: Business Standard | News Now | 10 May 2008 | 10:23 am
Colleges to be opened in minority-dominated districts: Sonia Hindu - 4 hours ago New Delhi (PTI): Noting that minorities need much greater access to professional education, UPA Chairperson Sonia Gandhi on Saturday said the government would open 370 colleges in educationally-backward districts, a large number of which have a ...
Ghazal maestro Jagjit Singh has undergone heart surgery at the Escorts hospital here, a doctor said Saturday. Source: India eNews: Top Headlines | 10 May 2008 | 9:31 am
Kolkata-based Xenitis Group, which rocked the market in 2005 with its desktop computers Aamchi PC and Apna PC, has projected a turnover of Rs.13 billion for 2008-09. It now plans to enter the mobile handset market also. Source: India eNews: Top Headlines | 10 May 2008 | 7:33 am
The Indian equities market plunged by more than 800 points this week due to rising crude oil prices and inflation, dampening the sentiments of investors. All the five trading session of the week ended in negative. Source: India eNews: Top Headlines | 10 May 2008 | 7:30 am
About 15 percent voting was reported in the first three hours of polling Saturday in 89 constituencies across 11 southern districts of Karnataka in the first phase of assembly elections. Source: India eNews: Top Headlines | 10 May 2008 | 6:00 am
Never in the history of cricket, now fighting a desperate battle to retain its reputation as a gentleman's game, have players made so much money in so short a span of time. Source: India eNews: Top Headlines | 10 May 2008 | 5:30 am
Bollywood actress Celina Jaitley is in a state of shock after her brother had a near-fatal accident in an army cantonment town in Madhya Pradesh. Source: India eNews: Top Headlines | 10 May 2008 | 5:00 am
Prakash Jha has accumulated a formidable cast of actors for his next directorial venture 'Rajniti' that blends contemporary Indian politics with chapters from the 'Mahabharata'. Source: India eNews: Top Headlines | 10 May 2008 | 4:33 am
Voting began Saturday in 89 constituencies in 11 southern districts of Karnataka in the first of the three-phase elections to the 224-member state assembly whose outcome has assumed national importance as it could be a pointer to the timing of parliamentary polls. Source: India eNews: Top Headlines | 10 May 2008 | 4:32 am
COLOMBO (Reuters) - A rebel Black Tiger suicide squad sank a Sri Lanka naval vessel in the eastern port of Trincomalee on Saturday, the second attack in the area in hours as locals readied to go to the polls.
NEW DELHI (Reuters) - Miles of trees stripped of their leaves, heaps of rubble, twisted electricity poles and swarms of hungry people -- the first sights to greet Indian pilot Prashant Karde as he flew in aid for storm-wrecked Myanmar this week.
NEW DELHI: If Prime Minister Manmohan Singh’s unscheduled appearance at a function here on Friday evening to release Union Human Resource Development Minister Arjun Singh’s book took everyone by surprise, his subsequent silence ... Source: The Hindu - Front Page | 10 May 2008 | 12:00 am
Lucknow: Two persons were arrested on Friday for allegedly posting over 150 letters containing an explosive powder to senior officials in Kanpur district. “Two persons, Deepak and R.S. Gupta, have been arrested for sending the ... Source: The Hindu - Front Page | 10 May 2008 | 12:00 am
MUMBAI: A special court on Friday acquitted the former Shiv Sena Minister Gajanan Kirtikar and 19 others in a 1992-93 Mumbai riots case. It was alleged that they instigated violence after the demolition of the Babri Masjid. Magistrate ... Source: The Hindu - Front Page | 10 May 2008 | 12:00 am
Moscow: Russia’s parade on Red Square to celebrate the 63rd anniversary of its World War II victory was watched by President Dmitry Medvedev and Prime Minister Vladimir Putin. ... Source: The Hindu - Front Page | 10 May 2008 | 12:00 am
Chennai: Featuring amateur videos of cuisine, music, dance, films and yoga, YouTube’s India service has gone live at ... Source: The Hindu - Front Page | 10 May 2008 | 12:00 am
Samba: Border Security Force personnel foiled an infiltration attempt by 10-15 militants in the Suchetgarh-Gallard area in Jammu and Kashmir late on Thursday evening. A party of the 112 battalion deployed in Samba saw the militants ... Source: The Hindu - Front Page | 10 May 2008 | 12:00 am
ISLAMABAD (Reuters) - Pakistan's ruling alliance failed to break the deadlock on reinstating judges sacked by President Pervez Musharraf during talks in London on Friday, rekindling speculation the month-old coalition might collapse.
ISTANBUL (Reuters) - Force India Formula One driver Adrian Sutil said on Friday police had foiled an attempt to blackmail him after last month's Spanish Grand Prix.
BERLIN (Reuters) - The Dalai Lama says he understands why Tibetan exiles were angry that the Olympic torch reached the top of Mount Everest but had advised them against protesting.
